Part 1. The Grade Level Content Expectations that we plan to focus on this year.

Reading Standards

Narrative Text

R.NT.05.01 analyze how characters and communities reflect life (in positive and negative ways) in classic, multicultural, and contemporary literature recognized for quality and literary merit.
R.NT.05.02 analyze the structure, elements, style, and purpose of narrative genre including historical fiction, tall tales, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

Informational text

R.IT.05.01 analyze the structure, elements, features, style, and purpose of informational genre including advertising, experiments, editorials, and atlases.
R.IT.05.02 identify and describe informational text patterns including compare/contrast, cause/effect, and problem/solution.

Comprehension

R.CM.05.01 connect personal knowledge, experiences, and understanding of the world to themes and perspectives in text through oral and written responses. Connect events in your life and what you know to things you read about. Be able to talk and write about this.
Critical Standards
R.CS.05.01 develop, discuss, and apply individual and shared standards using student/class created rubrics to assess the quality and accuracy of their own writing and the writing of others; identify attainment of intended purpose to interpret authors’ viewpoints and determine effect on classroom or school-wide audiences.
Writing Standards

Writing Genre

W.GN.05.03 write a position piece that demonstrates understanding of central ideas and supporting details (e.g., position/evidence organizational pattern) using multiple headings and subheadings.
W.PR.05.02 apply a variety of pre-writing strategies for both narrative and informational writing (e.g., graphic organizers such as maps, webs, Venn diagrams) in order to generate, sequence, and structure ideas (e.g., role and relationships of characters, settings, ideas, relationship of theory/evidence, or compare/contrast). Prewrite when writing using some type of graphic organizer, a four square, web, map, Venn diagram.

Writing Process

W.PR.05.04 revise drafts based on constructive and specific oral and written responses to writing by identifying sections of the piece to improve organization and flow of ideas (e.g., position/evidence organizational pattern, craft such as titles, leads, endings, and powerful verbs).
W.PR.05.05 proofread and edit writing using grade-level checklists and other appropriate resources both individually and in groups.